More Than Stephanie with Jodie Sweetin

Barely Famous

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4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week on Barely Famous, Jodie Sweetin joins Kail to talk about her new Lifetime movie Dateless to Dangerous: My Son's Secret Life; a dark and timely look at incel culture, toxic masculinity, and the dangers of online radicalization. Jodie opens up about the inspiration behind the film, how her own experiences as a mom shaped her perspective on the story, and what it’s like to go from sitcom star to serious dramatic actress.

Kail and Jodie also talk about growing up in the spotlight, breaking free from being typecast as Stephanie Tanner, addiction and recovery, motherhood, and rebuilding your life after rock bottom. Plus, Jodie reflects on how she’s redefining success both on and off screen.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the shit show. Things are going to get weird. It's your fave villain,
0:05.6	Kail Lowry. And you're listening to Barely Famous. Today I have a special guest with us on Barely Famous Podcast.
0:25.7	You may recognize her from Full House, Fuller House, or maybe one of her lifetime movies.
0:30.4	Jody Sweeten is here for Barely Famous Podcast.
0:33.1	All right, Jody, thank you for joining us on Barely Famous Podcast.
0:35.6	Absolutely.
0:36.1	And you're promoting your new movie.
0:37.6	Do you want to talk about it?
0:38.5	So, Dateless to Dangerous, and it premieres June 21st on Lifetime.
0:42.7	Yeah, Lifetime at 8 p.m. 7 Central.
0:45.0	And, yeah, I'm really proud of it.
0:46.6	Okay, well, let's talk about it.
0:47.6	I don't know anything about it.
0:48.7	Obviously, it's not the movie is stateless to dangerous, my son's secret life.
0:56.0	And it is about sort of, well, not sort of, but it is about the insult culture that we're
1:01.8	really dealing with right now and a lot of the really toxic masculinity and racism, misogyny
1:07.3	that are taking hold of different corners of the internet.
1:10.6	And I play Noelle, who's a mom who's kind of going through a separation with her husband
1:15.8	at the time, and she's got two teenage kids, Miles and Haley.
1:20.6	And Miles is really struggling.
1:22.9	Dad's out of the house, and he's kind of struggling to connect, find friends, find his place, and he,
1:29.1	you know, gets rejected by a girl and things just aren't going his way and he starts kind of
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